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First came "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" on the big screen. Then came "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" on the small screen. This year, Fox picked up on the trend--and hopes for more success--with "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance." Not to be outdone, Oxygen plans to launch "My Best Friend is a Big Fat Slut." The kicker is, it's not a reality show. "Big Fat Slut" will be the cable channel's first original scripted series, a comedy created by writer Claudia Lonow ("Less Than Perfect")

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to override states, particularly New York, that are setting more restrictive limits than the federal government for the amount of oxygen that must be added to gasoline to comply with the federal Clean Air Act. EPA says it is acting because the states` decisions would severely limit the use of the corn-based gasoline additive ethanol for what the agency sees as a negligible environmental return....

A test Wednesday at the Metropolitan Sanitary District's Deep Tunnel excavation site in La Grange, where six workers were overcome in a shaft, found that there was no oxygen at a depth of 12 feet, authorities said. One of the workers, J.T. Smith, 48, of Hammond, died Tuesday when he collapsed and fell into the shaft while being brought to the surface. It also was learned that Kenny Construction Co., the Wheeling firm that employed Smith and the other men, had been fined $5,000 for violating safety regulations after a similar accident killed an employee in 1977.

Commercial airplanes should carry self-inflating breathing bags with adequate oxygen supply to treat medical emergencies in flight, the American Medical Association urged Thursday. Several delegates attending the final day of the association's annual meeting in Chicago said they are frustrated when called upon to treat medical emergencies in flight because the airlines don`t carry adequate equipment. Dr. M. T. "Pepper" Jenkins, a delegate from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said the inflight oxygen supply and apparatus intended for use by healthy passengers if cabin pressure is lost are little use in treating people who suffer heart attacks or other medical emergencies.

Q-Our high school football team plays without the benefit of oxygen for our kids, who are at a disadvantage when playing against other teams who have it. Could you write about this so that we can show your information to our school board? A-A recent edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association reported on new research in this area. Researchers at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Baylor University Medical Center tested the effects of 100 percent oxygen, compared with room air, used during a five-minute rest period between bouts of exhausting treadmill exertion.

A third nursing home resident died Friday in what authorities suspect was a mix-up that allowed nitrogen to be hooked up to an in-house oxygen system. At least two women remained in a hospital Friday among seven taken there the day before from the Carriage-by-the-Lake nursing home in the Dayton suburb of Bellbrook, fire officials said. A nitrogen tank may have been mistaken for an oxygen tank, said Bob Miles, an assistant fire chief from nearby Washington Township. He said the tank had an oxygen label partially covered by a smaller nitrogen label.

Stone Stanley Entertainment, the production company behind the testosterone-driven "Man Show" and ABC's reality franchise "The Mole," has signed a deal to explore its softer side in a reality series for Oxygen. The nature of the Stone Stanley venture for the woman-oriented Oxygen is unknown, but it seems likely to continue with the company's self-professed "commitment to diversity, creativity and unapologetic fun." "Oxygen's attitude is very much in line with Stone Stanley, and we jumped at the chance to collaborate with them," says Sharon Levy, Stone Stanley vice president of development.

Somewhere I read about the claims for "oxygen therapy." It is supposed to stop the aging process, be good for coronary artery disease, give you greater comprehension, improve physical strength and renew sexual potency. Promoters say that it does all of these things by putting more oxygen into your tissues. Then grandson Buddy dropped in for a visit. Buddy made a very premature entrance into the world and is still on supplemental oxygen as his lungs develop. With Buddy's approval, I borrowed his nose plugs and took a few whiffs of his oxygen, assuming that maybe the extra oxygen would work miracles.

`Fill 'er up" was all anyone needed to say at the gasoline pump in the all-American driving ritual. And though, with regular, high-test or unleaded, motorists always had choices of gasoline, clean air standards are going to make the stuff in the pump more complicated. Enter reformulated fuels and oxygenated fuels. "Reformulated fuel will be the largest change in gasoline since the invention of high-test gasoline back in the 1930s," said Jim Simnick, gasoline product engineer for Amoco Corp.

The Blackhawks had better get this right before it's too late. A goal saved can be as good as a goal scored, But even hockey's greatest defense cannot sustain virtually no offense. The gods have been smiling on Chicago's boys of winter this spring. With a lot of pluck and considerable luck, the Hawks survived their series against Toronto, then swept Vancouver in straight sets. But to have stolen Thursday night's Stanley Cup semifinal opener with this squirt-gun attack of 14 shots in 61 minutes would have constituted grand theft.